dha
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I don't trust anyone's guts as much as I trust Elon and what my logic tells me--HOLD and BUY on dips...
Amen to that.
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I don't trust anyone's guts as much as I trust Elon and what my logic tells me--HOLD and BUY on dips...
I've not see anyone on here be of the 'head-in-the-sand' type. At all. Not even a little.
Balanced, informed discussion is not measured by the amount of positive news items being equal to the amount of negative news items. Not even close. The balanced, informed discussion about China layoffs/resignations/firings is that they are OLD news having begun when Wu was forced to resign and coming to a close now and somewhere around 30% of the Chinese division. Period, end of story. Elon already addressed China problems in the last CC. It's done, it's over, it's corrected and Tesla is already moving forward in China to finish undoing the damage. Elon also gave guidance when he felt the situation would be entirely rectified.
The TMC sentiment indicator worked really well in the past, when novices were buying LEAPS for the first time or when fear was rampant after the fires many pointed out the extremes & mid term turning points soon followed, so its something I try to gauge & trade.
Some observations of mine but unfortunantly no conclusions as far as sentiment goes.
1. Long time contributers who were mostly bulls no longer post here, did they cash out or just staying silent I don't know.
2. The use of the label "FUD" is at a all time high, TSLA has had larger corrections but I don't remember FUD being thrown around this much, is the frustration higher now? Is it because some of these investors missed out on the big run & bought near the highs? Maybe some is fair but its used in every other post it seems.
Wheres 8 Ball when you need him?
Wow, big pop -- what just happened?
Wow, big pop -- what just happened?
A bought a couple more calls so my position would be an even number now.Wow, big pop -- what just happened?
Lump, wish I hadn't overestimated the market's vision and followed your trade. Ah well, such is the great game of trading.
The short term is a gamble. My short term gambles seldom exceed 5% of my TSLA holdings. I'm thinking Q1 ER provides a chance of a reasonable return, though, because:
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* The lead-in to an ER typically provides a nice boost to the stock price, up until about 1-3 days before the ER
* The Q1 ER could easily be a beat, since the target for the quarter was set fairly low, Q4 brings in lots of delayed deliveries, and the dock strike has been settled, not to mention statements from James, Kallo, and Jonas.
I agree that lead-in to Q1 results will boost the stock price, but I'm not sure about the beat. Well, we'll see. But I'd argue that the advocates of uncertainty and doubt will continue to attract listeners until Model X roll-out and production ramp-up is actually happening and order books are exploding. Overwhelming demand for Model X (and execution on the roll-out and ramp-up) will confirm that valuation around 40-50 billion usd is justified, even to the sceptics, ignorants and the blind. Then, it will be just silly, even in "their" eyes, not to invest in Tesla. If I was playing with options, I'd wait for the 160s/170s and then get some November calls.
EDIT: And of course, please don't trust my gut!
Just a little update on Blind Faith Price Targets... Current assumptions include $6B this year, 50% growth til 2025, 10% margin, 20 p/e, $692B market cap in 2025, 4% annual dilution, 185M shares in 2025, all leading to $3740 per share by the end of 2025.
At $189/shr today, we have a 52-week low in sentiment, 31.77% implied discount on the 2025 target. Median sentiment over the last year is 28.01% implied discount. If we were at median sentiment today, the price would be $259. So we have about $70 in upside based simply on sentiment returning to median. The 25th pecentile, implied discount is 29.14% which would correspond to a price today of $235. So even a moderate improvement in sentiment has significant upside.
Looking forward to end of 2015 BFPT, I get a most bearish (minimum) $236, bearish (first quartile) $289, neutral (median) $316, and bullish (third quartile, 27.18% implied discount) $337.
Of couse, it is entirely possible that the market continues to become more bearish on Tesla and implied discount goes even higher. My BGPTs are simply calibrated to the most recent year of trading. Personally I think sentiment will improve over the long run, but short term trading is all about guessing at near term changes in sentiment. Good luck.
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It seems sentiment improved even as I wrote my last post.
The early part of today's Tesla presentation at the Roth Conference has covered the potential of the Gigafactory: http://seekingalpha.com/news/235805...87v:0c195ebf5b834089409a8699b7eea6e9&uprof=46